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GOING GREEN IN THE OPERATING ROOM<br />

The aim: ways to reduce hospital’s carbon footprint<br />

and save money for patients<br />

Experts say that operating rooms and labor-and<br />

delivery suites make up 70% of total hospital waste<br />

Among the waste is sterilized equipment that is<br />

opened and never used, inefficient high-energy<br />

overhead lights and trash thrown in “medical waste”<br />

bins that could be disposed of in an unexpensive way

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